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Major problems in Asian American history : documents and essays /

Title:
Major problems in Asian American history : documents and essays /
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ch. 1. Framing Asian American history. Essays: Neglect and distortion of Asian Americans by American historians / Roger Daniels -- The centrality of racism in Asian American history / Ronald Takaki -- Relinking the centrality of racism in Asian American history / Sylvia Yanagisako -- Capitalist restructuring and the new Asian immigration / Paul Ong, Edna Bonacich, Lucie Cheng -- What does it mean to be an Asian American? / Bill Ong Hing. -- ch. 2. Colonization, Pacific markets, and Asian labor migration to the United States before the Civil War. Documents: Chinese emperor decries market expansion in south China, 1727 -- An American trader recommends a route from California to China, 1850 -- Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson excorciates Chinese civilization, 1824 -- Hawaiians petition the privy council to halt foreign influence in the islands, and the council replies, 1845 -- A foreigner speculates on Hawaiian land acquisition, 1849 -- American commodore M.C. Perry opens up the Japanese market, 1856 -- New York Times heralds new trade with China and Japan, 1858 -- Researcher traces early nineteenth-century origins of Filipino American family, 1988. Essays: Origins of Chinese emigraion to california / Yong Chen -- Native ans Asian labor in the colonialization of Hawai'i / Ronald Takaki. -- ch. 3. The work of national expansion in the American West, 1848-1908. Documents: -- Writer J.D. Borthwick observes Chinese miners in California, 1857 -- Chinese laborers report on a race riot at Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, 1885 -- Journalist Helen Grey exposes the activities of a Chinese brothel owner, 1899 -- Chinese merchant Lee Wong Hing's store in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1904 -- Leading Japanese intellectual encourages westernization, 1875 -- Japanese newspaper Jiji Shimpo views emigration as a sign of Japan's military power, 1896 -- Japanese government criteria for emigrants to Hawai'i, 1885 -- Japanese official condemns brutal working conditions on Hawaiian plantations, 1885. Essays: Shifting Chinese immigrant employment / Sucheng Chan -- Japanese expansion in California / Akira Iriye.
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E184.A75 M35 2003 – Available